FL MADELINE SOTO: Missing from Orlando, FL - 26 Feb 2024 - Age 13 *Found Deceased*

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Madeline Soto missing: Florida mom begs for daughter's safe return home​

A mother in Orange County is begging for help locating her missing daughter.

Madeline ‘Maddie’ Soto was last seen on Monday, one day after she and her family celebrated her 13th birthday. Maddie’s mother, Jenn Soto, said surveillance video shows Maddie hanging out in a church parking lot on February 26 after being dropped off for school, but she never made it inside.

"I’m trying to hope for the best, but I’m scared for her," said Jenn Soto. "I want her to be okay; I want her to be safe… I don’t want her to come back harmed. I just want her back – whatever that means, I just want her back."

Jenn Soto said sheriff’s deputies are using K9s and a piece of Maddie’s clothing to try to track her scent near Town Loop Boulevard.

According to Jenn Soto, Maddie had never run away before. She said the teen had forgotten her cell phone at home that morning, but that was normal.

As of Wednesday morning, a variety of search teams are out searching for Maddie.


MEDIA - MADELINE SOTO: Missing from Orlando, FL - 26 Feb 2024 - Age 13
 
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Now that one is done and it is hitting the first one I heard with the female detective that really got me wondering. First one I saw of Grizzly's this one is a bunch of them, so I am going to skip through this one. I had a lot of questions as to this one. Several interviews of her on here...
 
the other thing is he also had left his phone at home per her. Yet she tried to call him multiple times? Why, she was hardly up for any time before having to head for a doctor's appt and wouldn't she hear the phone ringing every time she tried/ And why so worried you call him multiple times I the space of very little time...

Then he finally calls her. On WHAT??? is this when he came home with a dead Madeline? And she was already gone...

Hmmmmmm.

I mean she was awoken like at 8:15 maybe by him trying to get and take the dog out. Then she went back to bed but let's not forget heard people in the kitchen at some point but went back to sleep. I think her dr's or lab appt was at 9:30! When was she calling him multiple times? Also I think she said she got up around 9, what did you do sleep in your clothes, comb your hair and head for your appt?? Was it next door?

I don't know about anyone else, but with a doctor or even dentist appt, I am showered, fresh, teeth brushed, and you name it.

But that's another thing, she talks in one as if a dr's appt but in another it is a blood draw/labs. Not saying not true, just saying talk about pushing it...
 
And again why trying to call him so often? What worried about? Multiple times she said. And there wasn't that much of a time frame...
 
Yeah I fast forwarded through most but caught parts again and this is the interview that really got me wondering...
 
And I've already said this probably but LE didn't show up until 7:30 at mom's office and she is asked if they went back out looking and when they got home. Major hesitation, maybe checking phone, and she says got home somewhere between 8 and 9. HUH???

And HE went back out...

Not her.

Of course he traveled back to the dump site.

The very first singular show/video I linked you don't have to watch if you watch this one because in this one it is in here as well and I think they are in order...
 
Sp with fast forwarding I still caught some of the end of the one I had alread watched and that "just kidding, just kidding" by Jenn still stand out big time.

I just don't know...
 
And I know I am repeating but that article is so wrong. She said nothing about taking meds and being a bit spacy until almost the very end of the interview. Only when she was getting at a loss with some answers, never once before in the entire interview.
 
Well, like her or not, I've been both ways over the years, she has the parents' interview and talks of things in it. I wasn't sure I was ready for this tonight but have started it.

She can get a bit over with her commentary but then in fairness, it comes from the interview, etc...

One example of something about Jenn Soto is she tells his dad he needs to get him a lawyer. This is AFTER she learned what he had been doing to her daughter.

Okay. Anyone is going to have a tough time explaining that to me.

His mom is pretty well overinvolved I would say but his dad more honest and down to earth (I have not heard the interview yet) and sounds like dad pretty much describes them both as losers, can't hold jobs, feed off each other, failure to launch, both Jenn and Stephan...His DAD was paying $600 per month for Stephan to stay in a room at "her" house. I think we know and can be pretty certain it was not "her" house. Seems like parents on both sides had to help these adult "kids" out...She could not hold a job for more than a week or two nor could he etc...

This CHILD never had a CHANCE.

And I am barely into it. She is covering a lot of what is in it first.

I've just had a really off day and am angered by first Delphi and his family being all crying. You know, maybe there is good reason but there's two dead girls and families that lost such. Apparently even with confessions directly to them mom and wife can't accept such.

Here we have enabling parents it might appear on both sides of BOTH adult children.

I didn't do perfect but would say anyone still raising kids, this is what helping out too much does and not teaching anything!!! It's called ENABLING.

A work ethic, some values, some morals, you cannot go wrong instilling such.

I know others can say this many can.

Mine had some troubles here and there, never drugs, never crimes nothing big like that as I drilled that in, well not drilled but taught it and lived it, but they came to settle and not fight to go against anything a parent says at a certain age and see what they were taught. And that's such a good feeling when you get there. Still their own person but the important things are there. They HAVE IT.

Then there is the part or more about Jenn telling someone how her meds made her libido low and her and Stefan hadn't had sex in months and here is where Plunder can get a bit whatever, she says and then she sends her daughter to bed with him like offfering a piece of dangling fruit or some such. This is her kind of talk that I don't think she needs to put quite the way she does but on the other hand, well...it is true...

I have not even heard the interview yet and BOTH sound like a couple of adult losers. She is like prefacing it and commenting beforehand and I heard a clip or two last night of the interview so don't have trouble believing such is in it. Dad is more honest and mom would blame Jenn to help excuse her son. But I have heard she had some things to say too about her son.

Again haven't even heard it all yet, and don't know if I will this after midnight by a long shot hours and have to work.

And I can't recall if I linked this one it here it is. If duplication, apologies.

There's been a lot obtained and not just audio interviews, I gather pictures, docs and a LOT more. It will likely be coming out for some time.

 
Wow. Not only sent to be with him but the only bed in room was a single bed.

I mean.... Come ON...
 
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I don't think that story or "fact" if it is one is the biggest thing in this case but it would show a lie from her if she claimed to see her that morning, INITIALLY and then changed her story. I'm not hung up on it though any longer, it will be the case or it won't. There is so much more out now than that.
Ok, so I think the officer's report wasn't accurate as to what she said and you think it is. Some things never change, lol!

I've only listened to the audio interviews I posted and I'm not sure there's any info that I didn't already know, nothing big, anyway.
Per LE, Sterns is shown on video having returned to the apartment complex at 8:20 or so (right?) and so that correlates with Jenn's statement as to when he came into her bedroom to get the dog. (You know, Jenn said he was to be at the apartment that week and one reason was to help with the dog.)

As to why Jenn called him repeatedly that morning, I would think it was because he hadn't responded the first time but the suspicious part for me is his excuse that he'd left his phone at home.

As for the church video, I don't know when Jenn learned of that video but I recall my very strong impression that she wholeheartedly believed that that was Madeline in that video...and the person in the video was wearing shorts.
It's interesting because in the bodycam video from that first night, Jenn corrected Sterns that Madeline was wearing shorts- not pants- yet it's my understanding that when Madeline was found, it was indeed pants. In other words, Sterns perputuated the notion that the person in the video was Madeline even when there was reason to rule it out.
 
His parents are very forthcoming and full of information but man seem so enabling.

It is I am sorry pretty clear both are total losers, Jenn and Stephan, and she was no mother if all of this is true.

It also seems to me the two were playing his parents. Supposedly breaking up and so then Jenn charged him for a room his father was paying for. He also made some remark he didn't realize he was supporting the entire family... Not sure how $600 supports a whole family but...

He had money and they couldn't figure out where it was coming from...

Even when living at their house he had her on Facetime all day, etc. The mother said she couldn't keep a job, neither could. Always something prevent Jenn from working. She was bipolar, and bisexual......

When the couple was at their home, Maddie would sleep with his mom.

WTF is wrong here. I tell ya.

That also seems to make it clear that his folks did not sleep together.

I'll not remark on the dysfunction that seems to be around this child.

To be fair, she gives a good explanation of why Maddie was in with her.

I will say they know way too much or seem to as to when Maddie started puberty and more.

Mom says Maddie was starting to show signs of bipolar too and this terrified Jenn and they started butting heads badly...

Of course this is all coming from HIS parents but man...

She says Maddie had boys pushing her against a wall and taking a feel or whatever and school had a hard time stopping such from happening...

I mean this stuff is something else and hard.

This child was surrounded by instability and worse. To be fair, he probably put his parents through quite the life and they just had no idea what to do with him. I don't doubt her family dealt with similar.

Wasn't the home owned by a family member?

Neither worked or kept jobs or adulted.

He was very upset and stressed and worried badly just before that day...

Dad was done paying and Stephan said Jenn paid for him to come up there. So she paid her child's killer to come to her home...

He was extremely worried the day before the birthday party...

To me, that can only me one of two things. Either Maddie was telling or threatening to or pregnant.

He also was planning to stay with Jenn and Maddie a week. His parents were looking forward from the break and walking on eggshells around him...

They are quite picked on, especially the mom, and understandably for some of the things she has done and said but it's pretty clear these parents had a big problem child themselves (adult one) and death with sh*t for years. THey are actually very forthcoming, the father particularly... And open, telling police all imo...

Mom, a bit more unsure of, and tries some to put on Jenn, she thinks Jenn was the one seen on video near the church, planned, in Maddies clothes...

Mom also said things like Jenn was calm and Stephan was a sobbing mess and once in the interview she also said you can't fake that nasal nose running thing. Oh I beg to differ, we've all seen it, all that was as fake as can be.

But I have to say, re Jenn....

She is really losing ground with me. Jenn.

This one is VERY interesting.

Dad told Stephan if he had nothing to hide to give the cops his phone. So he did. Dad also aid it would help clear him, they would be able to find out where he'd been, etc. So then Stephan tells dad he had hmm left his phone at home... Well could a camera have caught you.

This dad is frustrated with this son and has been for years, one can tell, but also cares. Helped I am sure hoping to no end to get him on some right path but frustrated at all the things and help and cost...

Do NOT enable your children if you can at all help it. All worry they have a roof over head, etc. even as adults but...

This WHOLE story and those in it and around them...

Nothing to charge Jenn with that article said... Boy I don't know.... Neglect for sure...

I heard her say "we" so many more times in her interviews as to them dropping her off. THat wasn't ONE slip or one attempt to cover... It was a common one, many times.

As I said in one interview of hers, and again I think I saw them in reverse order as to when given, i saw countless red flags. In the next which likely was the first, she sailed through and I found her pretty much truthful until it got closer to the end and she got stuck for answers and that's where the spacey took my meds comment came in as she tried to come up with an answer with a long pause...

Something is really wrong here. I mean we KNOW what he did but something more is...

He was worried about something big time before he even went up there...

I had been of the bunch especially with the jail letters a bit whatever about his mom and her attempts to make Jenn reponsible along with him or at least trying to shift the blame but I don't know any longer... Thought it was b.s. to a point but not so sure now...I mean NOTHING excuses HIM BUT not so sure this was a one person deal...

Her own constant "we" also...

Both sound like total losers. Sorry but they do... Both brought each other down with them. Etc. Etc.

Watching this sh*t is the last thing I need to be doing but so much has been dumped I will never catch up if I don't...

I'm not seeing her at all any longer as some naive trusting mom that could not see what was going on... That's fading, and fast.

She was going to be a nurse (his mom said God forbid, save us all, paraphrasing), then a graphic designer, could not hold a job either, etc. She vaped constantly I take that to mean pot. I suspect he did as well and then there were all the other drugs or prescrip stuff to abuse.

Very, very messed up dynamic here.

I'm thinking the enabling families on both sides meant well and did the only things they could with adult children like these short of leaving them on the streets and homeless.

I have absolutely no change in him and my thoughts on him or what he did, but as far as mom, I do or am forming such...Those interviews were so different, one from the other...There were more I think, but just saying one and then another it was noticeable...

And even when I was somewhat believing her, again way too calm.

And let's go back to the other thing. After LE told her he'd been molesting her daughter for how long, her concern was telling his dad he needed to get him and pay for a lawyer. She has very little emotion or concern about her daughter throughout the interviews whether she seems believable or not.

These two "adults" were also using their own parents imo and putting them through HE77.

And then the fact this child sleep in bed with mom and bf, slept in bed with mom's bf alone, and slept with step grandma (not legally, just for explanation of who) is downright odd.

Believe it or not, I believe the step grandma, his mom, in that it was better than her being in the room on the floor with them. I would almost suspect she knew more than that would happen..

It is really a lot for the start of a work week that I desperately could use another day off from. But I am in this one and do not want to get behind which will probably happen anyhow as I gather a lot more things have come from the FOIA requests to cover yet...

Just some fill in from those also who haven't had the time, etc. And jmo.

I think Jenn may be slyer than him and smarter and a better user and liar... Because she is really hard to decide on but my meter is tipping...
 
Man.... His dad is being more than forthcoming imo...

He was upset when he found out Stephan left his phone at home and all these coincidences... He is not clueless to his son... or at least when things did not add up, etc. he is not one to not be able to go there about his son...
 
He got a call at 10:43 that he needed to come up there, by both Jenn and Stephan on speaker that he needed to come up there, were being kicked out, and needed to a place to stay, etc... He met them at the hotel... They paid for their own room, etc. so why did they need him up there...??
 
I'm just looking forward to seeing whether the case goes to trial because I wouldn't be surprised that he pleads guilty.
The only thing I'm really interested in knowing is re his intention and I'm also interested in knowing the nature of his participation on that website.
 
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But again dad is not clueless... He was recognizing things as they went on or in hindsight...

Man this is something...
 
I'm just looking forward to seeing whether the case goes to trial because I wouldn't be surprised that he pleads guilty.
The only thing I'm really interested in knowing is re his intention and I'm also interested in knowing is re the nature of his participation on that website.
I have to tell you, this interview with his parents, mostly his dad, is something else. I have to work and I am glued.

All as events unfolded... Both parents, but mostly him.

Whether you want to know noting more or this or that, it is quite interesting. And I will say, the mom has been come down on a lot but they are both being very forthcoming and he really is. I mean he realized as things were going on and after that his son was lying, etc... It's just VERY interesting. Doubt I will finish work is looming but I'd recommend a watch.

And as I've said, I'm really torn on Jenn but my benefit of the doubt is disappearing...
 
The dogs barking though towards a lot further in... OMG. That's all true, the poodles... And the poor folks, they have their car and dad's I phone but thought they could get it back to him...
 

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